Name: The problem with tracking fevers during coronavirus
Uploaded: 2022-04-17T00:26:01.000Z
Duration: 6 min 56 s
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- So there's a new ritual that a lots of us share right now.

Checking our temperature to see if we have a fever.

But if you're hoping your temperature is a nice 98.6 degrees

You might learn something new about yourself.

It turns out 98.6 degrees fahrenheit isn't really the

But temperature can still tell us a lot about our health.

The number 98.6 mostly came from 19th century German

researcher Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich.

He claims to catch the numbers of more than a million

in temperature readings to thousands of patients.

We asked our co workers to take their own readings

and this is what normal temperature looks like for us.

- Wunderlich himself knew that body temperature varied.

He recorded a healthy range from 97 and a quarter

Other studies have shown that temperature can differ

noticeably across age, gender, size and race.

And modern research points to a much lower number.

That squares with our very informal staff average.

- You let her write the thermometers broken.

- What's more, you yourself don't have one body temperature

But if you took yours a bunch over the course of a day,

It's a reflection of your bodies natural rhythms,

your digestion, hormone production and cognition and more.

- Other bodily cycles like ovulation can cause small

swings in temperature too and different parts of you

Under the tongue, armpit, forehead and rectal readings

We could be many temperatures all at once all the time

So, I spoke with a couple of people who are connecting

many of your bodies natural predictable rhythms

Your temperature might fluctuate more radically

and it might crank up above your natural range.

That's your body triggering a fever to make itself

A company that tracks the spread of infectious disease

Kinsa sells a smart thermometer that sends your

temperature back to the company every time you take it.

Kinsa says they have about a million thermometers

they've built a real time health weather map.

counties with more fever then flu season would explain.

That residual is a typical, in this particular

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